Cokie and Steve Roberts wrote a must-read column recently about President Obama events in Florida with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. The Roberts pointed out that the president knows that moderates are vital to his success and that he feels that he leads a nation and not just a political party.
The following congressional stats in the article will surprise anyone.
Thirty years ago, when the National Journal started keeping these records, 58 senators occupied the middle ground between the polar extremes. Last year, there were none. As Trent Lott, the former Republican leader of the Senate, told the Journal: “Over the years, there is no question that the middle in the Senate has shrunk considerably.”
If anything, the House has seen an even more dramatic shift toward ideological purity. In 1982, 334 House members posted ratings somewhere between the most liberal Republican and most conservative Democrat. By last year, the number had shriveled to seven, and today all but one of them — Republican Walter Jones of North Carolina — has left Congress.
http://www.albanyherald.com/opinioncolumns/headlines/Power_to_the_moderate_people_117841738.html
Certain forces in politics get their bread and butter from promoting division among Americans but we need more bridge builders who seek to acknowledge the real battle of the United States vs. The World. Haters on both sides push the fear factor but at the end of the day your coworkers or the people on the other side of town are likely decent folks. I came across a prank video from a Spanish language T.V. show that humorously use the image of the kid from the horror movie “the Ring” to scare people in a real hotel hallway. As FDR said, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. The national debt and unemployment numbers are scary but real folks generally aren’t. This blog is preparing a project that will be all about cultivating the next group of reasonable leaders.
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